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I came across the following business quote from Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him.
– Thomas J. Watson/IBM founder

A similar mistake happened at a previous high tech company I was with, a series of mistakes cost the company nearly $70,000. No one was fired, no heads were rolled, but it was one of the most expensive learning experiences one can ever learn.

In some ways, I would say ‘hell ya, fire that sucker.’ But the changes of you bringing on someone new and having that new person make the mistake is probably higher than from existing team members that have learned the costly lesson.

I ran into two presentations that follow the inspiration poster pattern about things Venture Capitalist and Startup Founders never say via TechCrunch. I was surprised, if Venture Capitalist and Startup Founder feel like this about each other how is there going to be trust to build a sustainable business, I guess sustainable is not a liquidity event. I thought they were very good and I posted the text below.

It seems like their is one guy currently naming all the new mid-season television shows. Maybe it is a trend, started by The Office, but many of the names of recent television shows have the following patter The Noun. To see what I mean, here are a few names of new and upcoming television shows.

Here I am reblogging some retweets for the past month that broken down by subject matter. Some of these tweets also cover events that occurred in May 2009. If you like to follow along, befriend me and I’ll be sure to follow back.

LOLprez

I’m the punchdrunk president.

Don’t call me unpatriotic, watching American Idol!

I’m a red coat living in a blue state hustling for some green backs.

In the morning I like breakfast, and at noon a quickie.

Forming a shadow government.

Out for a smoke, to get some fresh air.

This morning I am the Commander and Sous Chef!

Who needs an alarm clock when you got kids!

Everything in Spanish sounds like a sexual innuendo.

First get it going, then get it popping, and finally you got something…

Get yours, defend yours, represent yours!

If you start taking self-help advice from a comedian, you need a drinking problem.

Some people are comedians and others are self proclaimed self help guru, either way it is the same material.

Opportunity is the best freedom of all.

It is easier to change peoples behavior than their beliefs, once you change the behavior then you can start to change their beliefs…

Life does not buffer like a bad youtube stream.

Life is both the instrument and melody.

First The Man tried to keep you down, then he made you work for him, and now you got to pay The Man.

Learn it and earn it!

Where water flows, food grows!

Breaking News: the real news have been interrupted for a live update on the Miss California controversy.

Any monkey can wage war with laser guided weaponry, but a civilized man wages war with discourse, dialog, and debate.

The curriculum in our education system is at least ten years behind the skills new graduates require entering the workforce.

The educational system is designed to make you work for the man!

The news network are nothing more than FUD factories.

It seems to me that the Associated Press (AP) is nothing more than a PR agency for dates and stuff that happens on said dates.

Obama

Obama considering charging CIA official fir torture, Cheney must be rolling in his secret underground lair…

Obama is making rookie mistakes, he went from junior senator to junior president.

Why is it that Obama reaching out, almost pandering, hand shaking, and hob-nobbing with members of the Axis of Evil?

Obama’s half brother had been living in the UK illegally for seven years, his aunt had been living illegally in the US since 2000.

Did Obama bow to Suadi Suga Daddy: http://tinyurl.com/oil-bow

Did Obama bow to Saudi king? Obama didn’t just bow, he almost went down on him. It almost seems that Obama kissed the King’s pimp hand.

Some pundits thought Obama was a Manchurian Candidate, I would say he is a Meccan Candidate.

Obama broke the ultimate glass ceiling only to live behind a teleprompter.

Obama’s Kenyan aunt stated in the US illegally, even received public housing, in Boston area.

Obama is such a back seat driver in regards to the auto industry but for the bank sector he is a sugar daddy!

Obama just forced me into bankruptcy!

Is Obama on the campaign trail? He sounds like a candidate, not the president.

Obama parties like a rock star, I party like a libertarian.

Obama’s approval rating drop 5 points to 59%.

Party like it’s 1999 or better yet, like you at the Obama White House.

Obama needs to reform his vetting process, even after three tries his Sec. of Treasury had tax issues, his CIO pick had an ongoing FBI case.

Obama’s CIO was asked to take a leave just days after being appointed due to FBI raid and fraud investigation.

With Obama, the White House has become one big block party. It went from the people’s business to the people’s party. BYOB!

I am more interested in the last 100 days than the first 100 days.

Hope is the currency of the poor.

Politics

The Republican Party needs to understand that it is not a party if you don’t invite folks in and/or are not welcoming to all…

It seems that the Republican Party needs a bailout.

There should be as many memorial days as there are wars, that is four days for war on drugs, terrorism, Iraq, and Afghanistan…

Politician’s golden hammers are laws, for every issue they want to hammer it down with a new regulation.

Who knew what when and how? The truth is that in politics, no one knows anything anyways.

Senators, congressmen, and other elect officials pledged allegiance to the people, not to political parties and not a political apparatus.

Political Science is not really a science. It is not art. It is more akin to alchemy.

Why is there so many sexual innuendo in politics, i.e. ‘stimulus package’ and ‘teabagging’

You don’t count votes the way you count pages in a book, products in a store shelf, and goals in the soccer field.

In politics your friends are your enemies are your friends.

The geo-political situation in a person’s place of origin does not define them as a person.

One politicians pork barrel is another politicians other white meat.

Government

There is a circle of life, but there is also a vicious circle of tyranny.

The less control a person has the more importance they give to trivial control mechanism, rules, and regulations.

No foreign aid policy is better than a bad foreign aid policy…

When capitalism grows to large to fail and it actually does fail then it instantly becomes socialism.

Transparency kills apathy.

More government, less filling!

Handing out some random statistics is not transparency.

Just by saying that you are transparent alone does not make governments transparent.

Geithner said we are not in the same economic boat, but in same storm. His boat has snipers and your boat has been attacked by pirates.

VP Joe Biden stood up in front of a bunch of Hollywood execs and promised to appoint a copyright czar, and then a copyright gulag.

Just like sovereign individuals do not have certain rights but privileges, sovereign nations also do not have certain rights but privileges.

If at first you have secret laws, what follows are secret courts and secret prisons.

In true democracy laws can not be drafted, agreed, and passed in secret.

The government can create and save millions of dollars by adopting Ubuntu and green open source technologies.

Some shadow governments are using 1984 not as a cautionary tale of fascism and totalitarianism but as a practical how to guide or tutorial.

The US does not want to fight the war on drugs in its own streets, so it funds both sides of that war in the developing world!

In case of total state failure, which would you prefer? Biker gang ala Mad Max, religious fanatics ala Afghanistan, …